D.O. Readings Below the Dam

[Phil Lilley]

Woke up early this morning.  Drove to the dam with a couple of spinning rods and jigs and my DO meter.  Didn't do much as far as fishing.

Took readings from above outlet #1 down to the "big hole".  They are all labeled.

The one that really surprised me was the .2 reading above outlet #1.  I rebooted the meter a couple of times to make sure something wasn't wrong with it.  Of course, as I moved down and took more readings, I knew it  was working correctly.

I didn't see any sculpins - nothing - above outlet #1, of course.  But from outlet #1 down I saw plenty of fish -- sculpins and small rainbows.  Some of the rainbows were as small as 2 inches long.

 

 

[Phil Lilley]

Didn't see much activity until I got down below the rootwad - or the Big Hole.  As the sun came up, I saw quite a few big trout, probably browns, jumping further down lake, more like in the Rocking Chair hole.  Did see a few 20 inch browns work their way up to the skinny water.

Going to have to come up with new names for that area... there's no rebar hole anymore... and the stump isn't in play either.  Most of the water comes over the bar, down the middle of the lake basically.

It was the first time I'd been up there with the water off during the day in about 2 years.

[Phil Lilley]

@timsfly Tim Homesley said he did very well fishing below the dam this morning.  Caught a lot of nice rainbows including a 23 incher.

[snagged in outlet 3]

I'll be down this weekend to check it out